The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences

"When listening to one of lectures of noted physician and researcher Dr. Vincent Felitti, I realized immediately that he was talking about me.  He described difficult patients to treat, ones who went to the emergency room often, underwent multiple tests, and still no one could explain why they continued to suffer.   All specialists in medicine see this problem, from dermatologists to gastroenterologists.  There is not an area of medicine that is not affected by what Dr. Felliti termed “adverse childhood experiences,” or ACE, in his groundbreaking study...."

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